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arching it will help people to learn the language culture and improve the ability of communication in cross-culture practice.
4.2.1. Characteristics of Table Manners in China
Chinese table manners of families have no intrinsic quality even there are different region and position. No matter three meals a day or guest’s arrival, always bowls with chopsticks, food with soup. There is no rule for how to put the tableware. What people care about more is not the gorgeous tableware but the sumptuous food? People’s dining position reflects the most obvious etiquette of Chinese table manners. In ancient society, men are supreme, and women are not allowed to sit with men on the same table. Although this is modern society, this kind of ancient etiquette still remains. Today in China, the phenomenon that men sit on the table before women can be found everywhere. The master of a family usually sits on the first-class seat. The first-class seat is usually near the interior of a room facing to the door. Once there is a guest, the master will offer the first-class seat to the guest politely. If it is an ordinary meal of family, families should start after the elder. If there is a guest, the master offer the food to the guest is essential from the beginning to the end. And the tradition of urging others to drink is also a special phenomenon. 4.2.2. Characteristics of Table Manners in the West
The biggest difference in table manners between Chinese and western is the details of table manners can be as clear as the specifications what can exactly give people correct manners to refer to. Here are several typical manners what can illustrate the rigor of Western-style food：
①The western-style food official drinks the soup posture request to enter in advanced the soup with the ladle to oneself far that one side, then to leaves the direction which oneself goes far away to delimit lightly abundantly.
②When dines in the process, if you need to put down the knife, the edge faces oneself assumes in the plate as 10 o’clock shape. The tool bit is the hand of a clock, the hilt is the minute hand); the jaw buckles in the edge of a sword, the jaw direction 2 o’clock. The knife and fork assumes but actually V glyph. But V glyph knife and fork places the tray lower part (to depend on your direction).
③The knife with forks parallel places in the plate 5 o'clock positions when dines finished. Approximately the knife or forks the total length 1/3 handle department dew in tray edge exterior. The fork downward buckle on the plate, the knife’s edge faces to you.
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④When eats the bread, must tear down the bread may by an entrance scrap. The butter should in before you put in the mouth. Do not wipe beforehand the entire bread the full butter.
5. Conclusion
There are distinct differences in dietary concept, dietary object, dietary kitchen ware and dietary tableware between Chinese and westerners and they have their own advantage. Of course, the differences between Chinese and westerners have relativity in dietary culture. The study of differences in dietary culture needs the mutual understanding and appreciation between different cultures. When facing two kinds of dietary culture, we should learn from others’ strong point to offset our weakness rather than blind pursue the enjoyment of taste. With the increasing fast globalization, the dietary culture between Chinese and westerners will integrate in the collision and complement in the fusion under the background which is collided and fused by economy, culture and information changes. It can not only enhance the mutual understanding and enjoy the different feeling from different food, but also strengthen the communication, complementation and fusion in culture.
As the improvement of the living quality and standard, Chinese begin focusing on the food nutrition, health and science of cooking while westerners start to develop from the artistic realm of color, smell, taste, meaning and shape of Chinese food. Only if the dietary culture communicates in common development can people enjoy the more delicious, convenient, nutritional and healthy food. The communication of dietary culture exists in our daily life as the hinge of diverse cultures in the process of integration in economic and cultural globalization. The dietary culture has become a type of cultural impact which is strengthening step by step. Moreover, it exerts a huger effect than any other power on globalization and changing the world softly. It is possible to anticipate that the dietary culture between Chinese and westerners will become more and more charming under the communication and fusion.
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